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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws but to break up both, and make new ones.
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There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.
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Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
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I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
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You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
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I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.
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Whatever уоu are, bе а good one.
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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
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I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.
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Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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The foregoing history may not be precisely accurate in every particular but I am sure it is sufficiently so, for all the uses I shall attempt to make of it, and in it, we have before us, the chief material enabling us to correctly judge whether the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is right or wrong.
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Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
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In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.
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